Crossword-Solution: GYRON 5 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

During this period were given to the world, among many others, the romances of Merlin the Enchanter, of Launcelot du Lac, of Meliadus, of his son Tristram, of Gyron le Courtoys, of Perceval le Gallois, and, finally, that of the Saint Gréal, in which the whole body of knights-errant are represented, probably by some monkish writer, in the search for the Holy Cup which had held the blood of Christ.

Their names and forms are as follows:-- [Illustration: Gyron] The _gyron_ is a triangular figure formed by drawing a line from the dexter angle of the chief of the shield to the fess point, and an horizontal line from that point to the dexter side of the shield.

The gyron may be drawn in any part of the shield, but it is generally placed as in the annexed example.

CHAPTER VII THE GRAMMAR OF HERALDRY SECTION IV _The Subordinaries:-- The Canton or Quarter: The Inescutcheon: The Orle: The Tressure: The Bordure: Flanches: The Lozenge, Mascle, and Rustre: The Fusil: The Billet: The Gyron: The Frette-- The Roundles._ “The second in a line of stars.” --IDYLLS OF THE KING.

And it must here be observed that the Lozenge, Fusil, Billet, Gyron, and Frette were not used as single charges by the early Heralds; but by them the fields of Shields were divided _lozengy_ and _gyronny_, or they were _semée of Billets_, or covered over with _Frette_-work, from which the single charges evidently were afterwards obtained.